Watchtower Library 2007 Tips

How to Locate the rs_data Folder Within a Bottle

What is a bottle? Simply put: a "virtual" hard disk. CrossOver creates a sub-folder on your real hard drive and makes this act as the entire C: drive for a particular bottle. You can think of a bottle as a "virtual" Windows system. Since you can have many bottles, you can have many such virtual systems.

So, how to locate C:?

Go to CrossOver's Manage Bottles window. You'll find it in the Configure menu. Select the bottle (left panel) and click the Advanced tab. Below the big picture of the wine bottle you'll find a button labelled Open C: Drive in Finder. Click this.

Finder now shows you a folder called drive_c. This corresponds to the C: drive when Windows applications run in the bottle. Anything you copy here will appear in C: when a Windows program runs.

With Watchtower Library or Reader installed, you notice a folder called Program Files, and beneath that another sub-folder called Watchtower. (Of course, you'll find exactly the same sub-directory arrangement on Microsoft Windows!)

Underneath Watchtower, you'll see a number of sub-folders. The following "tree" summarises the structure, showing folders only though you'll also find various files.

Program Files
	Watchtower
		MEPSCommon
		Watchtower Reader
			E
				rs_data

Replacing rs_data

The E folder contains English publications. Notice rs_data. Replace this folder from the 2007 edition CD by directly copying it. Don't install the 2007 library application. Just drag and drop rs_data from CD to the E folder. Finder asks if you want to replace the existing rs_data (from 2006 CD). Say yes.

Note, if you do not get the replace confirmation then you likely copied it to the wrong place!

Regards, Roy


by Unknown on 2009-07-17 11:30:31
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